Published in Scientific Papers. Series D. Animal Science, Vol. LXII, Issue 2
Written by Alexandru POPESCU, Geanina VLASE, Carmen Georgeta NICOLAE, Cătălin PĂUN, Magda-Ioana NENCIU
As a result of the increasingly concern of people regarding the food safety, different public media focused on the data collected from reference laboratories inducing a false perception regarding the threat of sea food consumption. Starting with the Minamata disaster more and more people became worried about the sea water pollution with heavy metals. Using the reference data of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1881/2006 setting maximum levels for certain contaminants in foodstuffs and the Codex Alimentarius, 21 fish species from sea water or freshwater were studied for Cd, Mg and Pb. The data were collected from specialized laboratories during the following years: 2016 and 2017. The obtained results were in the acceptable limits for European standards. For 67 of 110 samples the value of LOD/LOQ could not be determined. These data are correlated with the water tests made in the last years, which shows a general decrease of the heavy metal pollution in sea waters.
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